APAAICP Measures of Progress

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APA-AICP Measures of Progress

• 2000

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Objectives

• Summarize progress on organizational development
  plan
• Highlight other important activities
• Report to leadership
• Preview of annual report

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Advance the Cause of Planning
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Legislation Policy I

• From Washington e-newsletter
• Community Character Act, S 2995
• New policy guide
• Sustainability
• Policy guide being prepared
• Manufactured Housing

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Legislation Policy II

• Growing Smart Roll-out plan
• Legislative alerts
• Takings
• Religious Liberty Protection Act
• Land and water conservation
• Post office location
• Census

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Legislation Policy III

• Chapter legislative workshops
• Mississippi, Virginia, Maryland, West Virginia
• Hawaii
• Chapter Growing Smart outreach events
• North Carolina, Massachusetts, Connecticut,
  Pennsylvania, Colorado, Montana

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Amicus Policy Advocacy

• 9 briefs filed
• One U.S. Supreme Court case
• Won 3 times, lost 2, 4 pending
• Issues
• Takings, development moratorium, sign
  amortization, affordable housing, historic
  preservation, state urban growth legislation

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Policy Partnerships
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Policy Partnerships I

• Funders Network for Smart Growth
• National Conference on Regionalism
• National Town Meeting on Sustainable Development
• Community Foundations Conference
• Firewise Community Workshop

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Policy Partnerships II

• National Rural Development Advisory Group
• Surface Transportation Policy Project
• Renew America Awards Program
• Smart Growth Network
• Coalition for Low Income Community Development
• Mayors Institute on City Design

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Public Relations
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Public Relations I

• Planning Communities for the 21st Century
• City Parks Forum
• Press releases on APA research, AICP Fellows, new
  AICP members, national conference
• World Town Planning Day
• Letters to the editor

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Public Relations II

• New press tools and services for monitoring
  planning news
• Responding to over 500 media sources
• Distributed 30 minute awards video
• Identified planners for interviews.
• Special outreach to education writers
• New chapter outreach on legislation op-eds

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Public Relations III

• Presentations about planning to
• Institute for Traffic Engineers, Preservation
  Action, International Right of Way Association,
  U.S. Forest Service, Trust for Public Land,
  EPA/ULI
• Growing Smart brochure, press conference, roll
  out plan
• Great Communities package Web

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Education
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Education-National Conference

• Attendance--4,604
• 207 sessions, 92 mobile workshops
• 9 Planning commissioner workshops and 2 mobile
  workshops
• 10 GIS and 11 professional development workshops
• 1 youth and planning workshop

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Conference Attendance
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Education-Planning Commissioners

• Audio conferences on livability sustainability,
  freedom of expression, TDRs, urban parks open
  space
• Audio conference attendance 2,710
• 4th Lincoln Institute marketing grant
• Joint planning and preservation training
• The Commissioner newsletter
• Training resource center

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Education-Youth

• Kids and Community on Web launched
• Resource Zone coming on Web
• 1 youth workshop at conference

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Advancing the Profession

• AICP

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Education-AICP Professional

• Major examination of mandatory continuing
  education underway
• Chapter grant to Oklahoma
• 2nd year exam prep course
• Expanded education information on Web
• Developing CD-ROM course on development
  administration

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AICP and Planning Educators

• 4th AICP Research Fellowship awarded
• Faculty members at New York Conference
• AICP-ACSP task force
• university-practitioner relations
• PSOs
• mentoring
• Collaborative projects symposium

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Organizational Development Outreach

• Second annual AICP Fellows elected
• Fellows mentoring proposal
• World Town Planning Day
• flyers, buttons, stickers, local activities
• Zucker report implementation underway
• Symposium on Smart Growth

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Publications

• CD-ROM conference proceedings
• Case Book edited in house
• AICP roster on line with addresses
• Hard copy roster available
• New ethics book being prepared

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Certification

• 1,290 took exam
• 1,018 new members
• 350 applied on line
• 230 registered on line
• Spencer report II
• 1st comprehensive study in 20 years

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AICP Member Growth
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Social, Economic, and Racial Equity
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Community Equity I

• Planning 10 of articles
• JAPA 9 articles
• PAS Memo 1 issue
• LUL/ZD 2 commentaries
• PAS 1 report
• Conference 11 sessions, 11 mobiles
• Minority scholarships

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Community Equity II

• Neighborhood Planning Web site
• City Parks Forum
• Redesigning Community Planning Teams
• Book Service carries 27 titles
• Manufactured housing, affordable housing,
  participation, homeless shelters, Fair Housing
  Act

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Research
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Planning Advisory Service

• 1,587 subscribers asking 3,001 inquiries
• 8 PAS Memo 4 Public Investment News
• Participation, stadiums, population, sprawl,
  urban streams, traditional neighborhoods, project
  coordination, GIS
• PAS Reports
• Traffic, youth, villages, neighborhood design,
  aesthetics, zoning glossary, impact fees

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Land-Use Law/Zoning Digest

• 1587 subscribers
• Articles
• Planning legislation, water supply liability,
  takings, animal feeding, religious institutions,
  housing discrimination, voter initiatives, smart
  growth processes, Massachusetts law and
  affordable housing

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Zoning News

• 3,623 subscribers
• Topics
• Chain drug stores, utility deregulation,
  industrial odor standards, gun-related uses,
  purpose statements, downtown housing, homeless
  shelters, manufactured housing statutes, zoning
  bonuses, zoning enforcement

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Major Research Projects

• Growing Smart--Preparing final draft
• City Parks Forum--second year
• Regional housing initiatives(HUD)
• Corridor preservation(FHWA)
• Landslides(USGS)
• Montana Smart Growth
• Latin America post-disaster planning(HUD)
• New Mexico transfer of development rights

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Evolution of Research

• Printed information about practice
• Web delivered information
• Prescribing best practice
• Giving advice to places and groups
• Changing the environment of planning
• Advice to foundations
• International work

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Sponsored Research Revenue
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Technology and Customer Service
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Technology -Web I

• 60,000 visits per month
• Members only section member roster with
  addresses, AICP registration redesigned, The New
  Planner, election results
• Jobs Online--from 50 to 80 ads a week
• Planners Book Service Catalog--135,000 sales, a
  58 increase

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Technology-Web II

• 600 Conference registrations
• Reorganization and redesign begun
• Improved publications search engine
• Kids and Communities
• New Landslides site
• Making Great Communities Happen show

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Customer Service I

• iMIS focus group continues
• increased communication with users
• improved assessment of needs
• Reorganized membership department
• New invoice billing cycle
• Added American Express to MC Visa
• Customer service training

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Customer Service II

• Surveyed chapters and divisions
• Implemented electronic reporting to chapters and
  divisions
• service increase from quarterly to monthly
• improved flexibility of use
• Created percentage dues option for chapters

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Membership
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Member Services

• Expanded redesigned Planning
• Web From Washington subscription
• Membership committee recommends
• E-mail members notices
• Study member discounts
• Monthly bank drafts
• Member survey for 2002

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Membership Marketing

• Membership brochure graphics on-line
• New member poster
• New student poster
• New planning commissioner brochure
• Developing new rolodex card
• Developing new member information packet

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APA Member Growth
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Improving Financial Stability
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Advertising Sales

• JobMart Ads Down from 344 to 312 pages
• Jobs Online 50 percent over budget
• Planning Magazine Down from 149 to 147
• ConsultantSearch Down from 71 to 50 firms

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Planners Book Service

• New books published
• Sprawl Busting
• Planning the Built Environment
• A Career Worth Planning
• Planning in Plain English
• Successful Public Meetings
• New book catalog 500 items, 135 new

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Planners Book Service Sales
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Financial Policies

• Balanced member dues programs and conference fees
  in1999
• User-funded program surpluses, not member dues
  build reserve
• Net assets growing toward 25 goal

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Net Asset Balance Percent
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Organizational Development

• New board manual orientation workshop
• New leadership affairs department
• New division position
• New division list serve
• New student web site
• Division task force
• Chapter services task force
• PSO task force

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New APA Slogan

• Created graphics
• Buttons and mouse pad
• On Web site
• Theme of new planning commissioner brochure
• On letterhead, brochures, posters, ads

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Making Great Communities Happen